| backmon host | The host on which the backmon binary is running. |
| storage provider | Some API or endpoint which provides file access for disks. |
| disk | A disk contains multiple backup file and is provided by a specific storage provider. |
| bucket | bucket means an S3-compatible bucket. One bucket can provide any number of disks. |
dotstat or .stat | To easily collect meta data about backup files, you can provide a .stat file for each of your backup files. It is a simple YAML file in which you can store meta data like time of file creation, time of last modification and the archive date. |
| backup definition | At the root of each disk there must be a backup_definitions.yaml which specifices how backups are stored in it. |
| timestamp type | backmon uses four different types of timestamps for files. Each of those timestamps is internally available. |